Still making slow but steady progress on the sequel (emphasis on the slow part). Arrggh. I'm so close now, which isn't helping. On the upside, I'm getting a few more ideas about book three. I know some stuff that's going to be happening, and as usual, it's the personal stuff that comes first. I see the definite beginnings of a triangle (well, another one, so what shape does that make?), which might not make some people very happy. I know it's going to make some of the characters a mite displeased. But hey, you push and you push, trying to get that big boulder up the mountain and down the other side, but once it starts rolling on its own, there's no guarantee it'll end up where you planned. Experiences, bad or good, change people, and you've got to expect that.
I think part of what's held me up so long with this sequel is the idea that I have to write the "right" story for it. I mean, really, there are any number of ways this story could go, some of them more interesting than others, but all of them valid. So how do you choose? What's making me feel better is that I've been able to stick pretty closely to the outline I made, which is very similar (plot point wise) to the second draft. The first draft was a little out there because I wrote it before I made major revisions to The Silver Spoon.
And on a totally unrelated note, I read a great book this weekend, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. It's a vampire Young Adult novel, but anyone who likes vampire stories will enjoy it. Excellent reading. It flowed so naturally, none of those "yeah, right" moments. And I just read she got a $750,000 advance on her three book contract as a first-time novelist. The book is good so that makes the news much easier to swallow. And I remind myself that I don't work well under pressure. $750,000 is a lot of pressure. But it's also a lot of money. But good for her. The more first-time novelists are discovered by publishers, the better the odds are for the rest of us still struggling to be full-time writers.
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You have your choice: A square, a rectangle, or a parallelogram.
Oh! It's definitely a parallelogram. I've always wanted to write a story with a love paralellogram! (Is that really how you spell paralellogram? huh.)
I always find it hard to let my characters go....I wouldn't mind writing a trilogy!
It is a lot of fun! I couldn't let go of any of my characters after the first book. Fortunately, I realized that before I started sending it out, so I knew I was trying to sell a trilogy (or more.) Even now, it's hard for me to imagine a day when I won't "hear" from them any more.
As frustrating as it can be sometimes (It's difficult for me to make everything match up and make sure people who haven't read the first book have enough info to read the second one--I just want to tell the new story!), the idea of being done makes me sad.
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